[
UK
/tʃˈɜːp/
]
[ US /ˈtʃɝp/ ]
[ US /ˈtʃɝp/ ]
NOUN
- a sharp sound made by small birds or insects
VERB
-
make high-pitched sounds
the birds were chirping in the bushes - sing in modulation
How To Use chirp In A Sentence
- A series of enervating campus visits is marked by interchangeably chirpy undergraduate tour guides united by their ability to walk backward while extolling the school's a capella groups and reassuring parents about the high priority placed on security. A Craving for Acceptance
- The melodious chirps, chirrups, tweets, twitters and warbling notes from the winged visitors blend well with the incessant hum, buzz and drone of innumerable insects, to produce the effect of being inside a vast forest.
- The melodious chirps, chirrups, tweets, twitters and warbling notes from the winged visitors blend well with the incessant hum, buzz and drone of innumerable insects, to produce the effect of being inside a vast forest.
- The other great thing is that you wake next day in the chirpiest possible form. Times, Sunday Times
- Not classy but certainly felt chirpier the next morning. Times, Sunday Times
- But my parents weren't quite so chirpy. Times, Sunday Times
- Elongated roars and fragments of voices gave a sense of atmospheric portent, while syncopated pings, clicks and chirps added a desultory counterpoint.
- The autumn birds were singing; the autumn flowers were blooming; yellow golden rod and scarlet sumach glowed in the corners of the fences; locusts chirped in treetops; grasshoppers stridulated in the meadows, one or two of them making more noise than a whole drove of cattle lying peacefully chewing their cud beneath an umbrageous elm and lifting up their great, tranquil, blinking eyes to the morning sun. The Redemption of David Corson
- There it was, finally, complete with the slate-gray lighting, blaring hippish soundtrack and chirpy “greeters” — Britney, Mariah, Amber, Becky, Megan, you know the type — just inside the double doors, anxious as all get-out to welcome you to your next dining experience. Lil Patty Grows Up : Patricia Smith : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
- The springtime calling of frogs had given way to the chirping of crickets and the distant barks of rutting roe deer.